The subtitle is "The Bible and LDS Scriptures
Prove Conclusively that Mormons Are not Biblical
Christians" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Historically, only until recently have Mormons wanted
to be called Christians, preferring not to be included
with Christian denominations, which Joseph Smith said
were, "all wrong ... all their creeds were an
admonition in his sight, and that those professors
(Christians) were all corrupt" (Pearl of Great
Price, Joseph Smith, 2:18-19).

Mormons have preferred to be called
"saints"; however, in the recent years the LDS
church has spent millions in an intense "PR"
campaign aimed at moving the church into the mainstream
of Christianity. The political and economic benefits of
Mormons being included in the mainstream of Christianity
are obvious. Further, for Mormons to be accepted as
traditional Christians would greatly aid in proselytizing
the members of Christian denominations into the LDS
church. This is why the LDS church is trying so hard to
present itself as Christian and is trying to overcome the
stigma of being a cult.

The answer to the question, "Are Mormons
Christians," is simple. They are not Christians for
several reasons, and their unbiblical doctrines show them
to be a "Christian" cult.

The name Christian was first used, as Acts 11:26
records, to identify the disciples of Jesus Christ. The
word "Christian" is the Greek word
"christianos," and it means an adherent of
Jesus Christ. It literally means "Christ ones"
(Acts 11:26, 26:28, 1 Peter 4:16). The correct definition
of the word is one who is a follower of the Jesus Christ
of the Bible. For almost two thousand years it has never
had a reference to anyone other that the historical Jesus
Christ of the New Testament.

Why Mormons Are Not Christian.

First: Mormons do not follow or believe in the
historic Jesus Christ of the Bible, but rather in a
difference Jesus. This is why most Biblical Christians
emphatically insist that Mormons are not Christians. Let
me explain.

The god of the Mormons is not the God of the Bible. To
the Mormons, Jesus is the firstborn son of an exalted
"man" who became the god of this world. The
man-god of Mormonism was made the god of this world
because of his good works on another planet somewhere out
in the universe. He "earned" godhood, and was
thus appointed by a counsel of gods in the heavens to his
high position as the god of planet Earth. The Mormon god
of this world was a man, like all men, who became a god.
This is what the celestial marriage and the temple vows
are all about. LDS men, by doing their temple work, are
striving for exaltation by which they, too, shall one day
become gods. Their wives will be the mother goddesses of
"their" world and with their husband will
produce the population of their world. This is the Mormon
doctrine of "eternal progression."

Note the following quote from the Mormon Journal of
Discourses, vol. 1, page 123, made by the LDS Apostle
Orson Hyde:

"Remember that God, our heavenly Father, was
perhaps once a child, a mortal like we ourselves, and
rose step by step in the scale of progress, in the school
of advancement; has moved forward and overcome, until He
has arrived at the point were He is."

Lorenzo Snow, late President of the Mormon church,
made this statement in the second verse of his famous
poem entitled, "Man's Destiny":

The God of the Bible is not an exalted man. The God of
the Bible is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient. The
Bible says He is the only God and there are no other
Gods. He had no beginning or end and he is a spirit being
and never was a man.

Note the clear teaching of the Bible as to who the
real God is:

Numbers 23:19, "God is not a man, that he should
lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath
he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and
shall he not make it good?"

Psalms 102:26-27, "They shall perish, but thou
shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a
garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they
shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years
shall have no end."

Isaiah 43:10-11, "Ye are my witnesses, saith the
LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know
and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me
there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no
saviour."

Isaiah 44:6, "Thus saith the LORD the King of
Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the
first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no
God."

Isaiah 44:8, "Fear ye not, neither be afraid:
have not I told thee from that time, and have declared
it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me?
yea, there is no God; I know not any."

Isaiah 45:21-22, "Tell ye, and bring them near;
yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared
this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time?
have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me;
a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. Look
unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for
I am God, and there is none else."

Jeremiah 23:24, "Can any hide himself in secret
places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I
fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD."

Malachi 3:6, "For I am the LORD, I change not;
therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed."

John 1:16-18, "And of his fullness have all we
received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by
Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man
hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which
is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared
him."

John 4:24, "God is a Spirit: and they that
worship him must worship him in spirit and in
truth."

Romans 1:22, "Professing themselves to be wise,
they became fools, And changed the glory of the
incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible
man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping
things."

Colossians 1:15, "Who is the image of the
invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by
him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that
are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be
thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all
things were created by him, and for him:"

1 Timothy 1:17, "Now unto the King eternal,
immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and
glory for ever and ever. Amen."

1 Timothy 6:16, "Who only hath immortality,
dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto;
whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and
power everlasting. Amen."

Clearly, Mormonism's god is not the God of
Christianity who is the God revealed to us in the Bible.
The Mormon god is a god formed from the imaginations of
Joseph Smith, and in truth is a false, non-existent god
or idol.

Second: The Jesus Christ of Mormonism is not
the Jesus Christ of the Bible.

The Mormon Jesus is the son of this man-god. The
Mormon Jesus is the brother of Lucifer, and according to
LDS teaching, he married several of the Marys of the New
Testament. He is not, to the LDS church, "God
incarnate" as the Bible plainly states. Clearly, the
Mormon god and Jesus are not the true.

God and Jesus of the Bible

Orson Hyde, the Mormon Apostle said, "We say it
was Jesus Christ who was married in the marriage of Cana
of Galilee" (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 2, page
80).

Brigham Young, said, "When the Virgin Mary
conceived the Child Jesus ... He was not begotten by the
Holy Ghost. And who is His father? He is the first of the
human family" (Journal of Discourses, pages 50-51).

Compare this with the Word of God, "And the angel
answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come
upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow
thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born
of thee shall be called the Son of God" (Luke 1:35).

Mormons teach that Jesus Christ suffered for sin in
the Garden of Gethsemane when He sweat "as it
were" great drops of blood. Mormons totally avoid
the Biblical teaching of Christ's atonement for sin which
was accomplished on the Cross.

"Christians speak often of the blood of Christ
and its cleansing power. Much is believed and taught on
this subject, however, it is utter nonsense and so
palpably false that to believe it is to lose one's
salvation."

It goes further to say that salvation is
"conditional on faith, and repentance, and baptism
and keeping the commands of God."

I would like to add, yes, it is very true that
Christians do speak much of the blood of Christ. Note the
emphasis the Bible places on the blood of Christ:

"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the
light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood
of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin"
(1 John 1:7).

"How much more shall the blood of Christ, who
through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot
to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve
the living God?" (Hebrew 9:14).

"And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful
witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the
prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us,
and washed us from our sins in his own blood"
(Revelations 1:5).

The ejection of this Biblical truth by the LDS church
shows again it is not a Christian church.

Note that in the following verses the Bible says
salvation, which is forgiveness of sin and receiving of
eternal life, is a gift of God, and it is not obtained by
"works":

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and
that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of
works, lest any man should boast" (Ephesians 2:8-9).

"But to him that worketh not, but believeth on
him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for
righteousness" (Romans 4:5).

I am aware that the L.D.S church has several
definitions of salvation and several degrees of glory. A
good discussion of the problem is found on the Internet
at http:CastYourNet.com/LDS-Shock.

The real Jesus Christ is the "only begotten of
the Father." He is not one of many sons and
certainly not the brother of Satan as the following
Scriptures clearly state:

John 1:18, "No man hath seen God at any time; the
only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father,
he hath declared him."

John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that he
gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in
him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

John 3:18, "He that believeth on him is not
condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned
already, because he hath not believed in the name of the
only begotten Son of God."

Hebrews 1:5, "For unto which of the angels said
he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten
thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall
be to me a Son?"

1 John 4:9, "In this was manifested the love of
God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten
Son into the world, that we might live through him."

Jesus Christ of the Bible is God Incarnate in Man

John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God."

John 1:14, "And the Word was made flesh, and
dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of
the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and
truth."

John 10:30 "I and my Father are one." Jesus
claimed to be one with the Father.

In John 14:9, Jesus said to see him is to see the
Father.

In John 8:25, 56-59, 18:6,8 Jesus used the Jehovistic
"I AM," identifying Himself as God.

In Matthew 22:42-45, Jesus claimed to be the Old
Testament "Adonai."

In Mark 2:5-7, Jesus forgave sin, a prerogative
belonging only to God.

In Matthew 14:33; 28:9; and John 20:28-29, Jesus
asserted Himself as God by allowing men to worship Him.

John 1:3 states that Jesus is the Creator, and Genesis
1:1 states that God was the Creator.

Only those who believe in the real Biblical God and
Jesus Christ have the right to use the name
"Christian." The Mormon prophets historically
have openly ridiculed those who believe in the God,
Jesus, and Holy Spirit that the Bible reveals.

One question that I would ask all Mormons is this:
"If I accept you as a Christian, will you accept me
as a Mormon?" Would you accept me as a Mormon if I
reject Joseph Smith and all the LDS prophets as being
prophets of God. If I do not believe in the Book of
Mormon or the LDS Scriptures, baptisms for the dead, the
temple endowments, the LDS gospel, would you accept me as
a Mormon? The answer is obviously, you would not. In like
manner, when Mormonism denies the Bible and every
Christian doctrine do you think that Biblical Christians
should accept Mormons as Christians? Again the answer is
very obvious, no we will not. You cannot legitimately
claim to be Christians when you refuse to accept what the
Bible teaches and what a true Christian believes.

I would implore Mormons to honestly and openly examine
their teachings about God and Jesus Christ and examine
who the Bible defines as being a Christian. There is no
benefit in calling yourself a "Christian" when
Biblically you are not.

Because we love the souls of men and want to see them,
too, spend eternity in Heaven with our Savior, we
strongly object to anyone proclaiming to the world a
false Jesus Christ. We do not want to see anyone miss
having their sins forgiven and receiving eternal life,
because they were deceived.

Jesus said that He alone was the truth, the way and
the life.

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth,
and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by
me" (John 14:6).

Belief in the real Jesus Christ is the only way a man
can receive forgiveness of sin and eternal life. The LDS,
church in presenting a false Christ is, in fact, leading
souls away from salvation and the real Jesus. They reject
God's truth and substitute another Jesus who does not
exist and cannot save. Only those who believe in the
Biblical Jesus Christ will go to heaven when they die.
Those who put their trust in a false Christ will be
eternally lost. Every true Child of God knows this, and
that is why we try so hard to point men away from false
churches, prophets, gods and Christs, that they may find
God's true Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and be saved.

Let God speak for Himself by His Word.

Matt. 24:24, "For there shall arise false
Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs
and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they
shall deceive the very elect."

"Be it known unto you all, and to all the people
of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by
him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is
the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which
is become the head of the corner. Neither is there
salvation in any other: for there is none other name
under heaven given among men, whereby we must be
saved" (Acts 14:10-12).